FRESH from their defeat in the Duke Amachree case, the Christian Legal Centre is preparing legal action in defence of a pair of Blackburn bigots who were told by Lancashire Council that their homophobia precluded them from fostering kids. John and Collette Yallop had their application to be foster parents terminated by the Council after [...]
ANNE Rice, the author best known for her vampire novels, created a sensation last week when she declared on her Facebook page that she had “quit being a Christian”. Twelve years after her return to Catholicism, Rice said she still believed in God, but that: In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. [...]
IN what looks suspiciously like an attempt to ape the activities of the Islamic world’s Commissions for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the Vatican has extended the powers of its Swiss Guard to impose a modesty dress code across the entire city state. Tourists entering St Peter’s Basilica have long been required [...]
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ABSTINENCE advocate Mark Souder – a conservative Republican Indiana congressman – is now history following revelations that he had congress with a part-time staffer named Tracy Jackson. Souder and Jackson recently had starring roles in an internet video show praising the virtues of sexual abstinence. In the November 2009 a video, Jackson introduces Souder this [...]
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THE latest chapter on the life of rentboy lover Dr George Alan Rekers comes today via Joe.My.God, who imparts the news that Rekers used tell the parents of “effeminate” boys that they could spank the gay out of them. Here’s how one boy was treated: In 1974, Rekers, a leading thinker in the so-called ex-gay [...]
GEORGE “I’m not gay” Rekers, the reparative therapy psychologist “gay-cure” charlatan who this week resigned from his position as a board member of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality – allegedly to give himself time to fight media reports about his luggage-lifting hooker – has placed himself in the care of a [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
